ISO 3166/MA
E26339
ISO 3166/MA is the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency responsible for developing and updating the international standard for country codes and their subdivisions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISO 3166/MA canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T206368 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ISO 3166/MA Context triple: [ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, abbreviation, ISO 3166/MA]
-
A.
ISO 3166-3
ISO 3166-3 is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines codes for countries and territories that have been removed from the current ISO 3166-1 list, providing their former country codes and their replacements.
-
B.
ISO 3166
ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
-
C.
UN M49
UN M49 is a United Nations standard that defines numeric codes for countries and geographical regions for statistical and analytical purposes.
-
D.
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is an international standard published by ISO that defines globally recognized country codes in alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric formats.
-
E.
Mauritania
Mauritania is a Northwest African country on the Atlantic coast, known for its vast Saharan landscapes, mixed Arab-Berber and Sub-Saharan cultures, and significant iron ore resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ISO 3166/MA Target entity description: ISO 3166/MA is the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency responsible for developing and updating the international standard for country codes and their subdivisions.
-
A.
ISO 3166-3
ISO 3166-3 is the part of the ISO 3166 standard that defines codes for countries and territories that have been removed from the current ISO 3166-1 list, providing their former country codes and their replacements.
-
B.
ISO 3166
ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
-
C.
UN M49
UN M49 is a United Nations standard that defines numeric codes for countries and geographical regions for statistical and analytical purposes.
-
D.
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is an international standard published by ISO that defines globally recognized country codes in alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric formats.
-
E.
Mauritania
Mauritania is a Northwest African country on the Atlantic coast, known for its vast Saharan landscapes, mixed Arab-Berber and Sub-Saharan cultures, and significant iron ore resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO body
ⓘ
maintenance agency ⓘ standards organization committee ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ISO 3166/MA ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
United Nations statistics bodies
ⓘ
linked to:
United Nations statistics systems
national standards bodies ⓘ other ISO technical committees ⓘ |
| fullName | ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ⓘ |
| issues |
newsletters on ISO 3166 changes
ⓘ
updates to ISO 3166 code lists ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| locatedInOrganization | ISO Central Secretariat ⓘ |
| maintainsStandard |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
ISO 3166-1 ⓘ ISO 3166-2 ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 3166
ISO 3166-3 ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| processes |
requests for changes to existing country codes
ⓘ
requests for deletion of country codes ⓘ requests for new country codes ⓘ |
| publishes |
guidelines for use of ISO 3166 codes
ⓘ
official ISO 3166 code lists ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
ISO 4217
ⓘ
ISO 639 ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
codes for country subdivisions
ⓘ
codes for formerly used country names ⓘ country codes ⓘ development of ISO 3166 ⓘ updating ISO 3166 ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| standardDomain |
country codes
ⓘ
country name codes ⓘ subdivision codes ⓘ territory codes ⓘ |
| standardType | international standard ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
geographic coding
ⓘ
identification of countries ⓘ identification of subdivisions ⓘ identification of territories ⓘ |
| usesCodeElements |
alpha-2 country codes
ⓘ
alpha-3 country codes ⓘ numeric country codes ⓘ |
| website | https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: ISO 3166/MA Description of subject: ISO 3166/MA is the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency responsible for developing and updating the international standard for country codes and their subdivisions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.